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" The gradual removal, in the form of carbonate of lime, of the carbonic acid from the primeval atmosphere, has been connected with great changes in the organic life of the globe. The air was doubtless at first unfit for the respiration of warm-blooded... "
Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science - Page 314
1867
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The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, Volume 3

1868 - 530 pages
...limestones, with the exception of that derived from the sub-aerial decay of calcareous and magnesian silicates belonging to the primitive crust. The gradual...the primitive atmosphere was long since pointed out by Brongniart, and our great stores of fossil fuel have been derived from the decomposition, by the...
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Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the ..., Volume 5

Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 pages
...limestones, with the exception of that derived from the sub-aerial decay of calcareous and magnesian silicates belonging to the primitive crust. The gradual...the primitive atmosphere was long since pointed out by Brongniart, and our great stores of fossil fuel have been derived from the decomposition, by the...
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Underground Life; Or, Mines and Miners

Louis Simonin - 1869 - 684 pages
...the mollusca, and the remains of other organisms which lived in the waters in which they were formed. the carbonic acid from the primeval atmosphere, has...the primitive atmosphere was long since pointed out by Brongniart; and our great stores of fossil fuel have been derived from the decomposition, by the...
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Underground Life, Or, Mines and Miners, Volume 17

Louis Simonin - 1869 - 686 pages
...form of carbonate of lime, of the carbonic acid from the primeval atmosphere, has been con-- nected with great changes in the organic life of the globe....the primitive atmosphere was long since pointed out by Brongniart; and our great stores of fossil fuel have been derived from the decomposition, by the...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the ..., Volume 20; Volume 24

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1871 - 448 pages
...period of a purer air. Calculations based upon the probable amount of limestone in the earth's crust, lead us to conclude that the amount of carbon thus...in the form of carbonic acid has been so enormous, tbat we must suppose the earlier forms of air-breathing animals to have been peculiarly adapted to...
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Chemical and Geological Essays

Thomas Sterry Hunt - 1875 - 520 pages
...limestones, with the exception of that derived from the subaerial decay of calcareous and magnesian silicates belonging to the primitive crust. The gradual...the primitive atmosphere was long since pointed out by Brongniart, and our great stores of fossil fuel have been derived from the decomposition, by the...
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Chemical and Geological Essays

Thomas Sterry Hunt - 1875 - 530 pages
...limestones, with the exception of that derived from the subaerial decay of calcareous and magnesian silicates belonging to the' primitive crust. The gradual...the primitive atmosphere was long since pointed out by Brongniart, and our great stores of fossil fuel have been derived from the decomposition, by the...
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Chemical and Geological Essays

Thomas Sterry Hunt - 1875 - 524 pages
...connected with great changes in the organic life of the globe. The air was doubtless at first unlit for the respiration of warm-blooded animals, and we...the primitive atmosphere was long since pointed out by Brongniart, and our great stores of fossil fuel have been derived from the decomposition, by the...
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Chemical and Geological Essays

Thomas Sterry Hunt - 1878 - 550 pages
...derived from the subaerial decay of calcareous and magnesian silicates belonging to the primitive cfust. The gradual removal, in the form of carbonate of lime,...the primitive atmosphere was long since pointed out by Bronguiart, and our great stores of fossil fuel have been derived from the decomposition, by the...
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Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the ..., Volume 5

Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 652 pages
...amount of carbon thus removed in the form of carL.unic acid has been so enormous, that we must SUl)PO$O the earlier forms of air-breathing animals to have been peculiarly adapted to live in an atzuosphtru hich would probably be too impure to support znotkrn n'itoliaza life. The agency of plants...
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